The bar is a lot higher for forking Java. It's not enough for a few guys to establish a track record of consistent high-quality releases. IBM and Red Hat will

The bar is a lot higher for forking Java. It's not enough for a few guys to establish a track record of consistent high-quality releases. IBM and Red Hat will only give their support to an organization comparable to the one that controls Java now, which requires a lot of coordination and planning, which in turn requires some high-level decisions made inside organizations that have the personnel, money, and interest to make it happen. A single blog post doesn't accomplish much, but this is the kind of pitch that needs to be made in more detail to the right people inside IBM et al.